Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Lesson Plan

Chapters 2-5

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3 Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (here, diplomacy and negotiation)

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.5 Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Chapters 2-5

These chapters begin the discussion of how Indian tribes went from...